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Gov. Deval L. Patrick today named Marian T. Ryan as district attorney for Middlesex County. Ryan fills the vacancy created by the departure of Gerald T. Leone. Ryan has served in the office for more than three decades, most recently ...

I had a chance to review the transcript of the initial appearance in the case of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. Here are a couple of things that I found noteworthy: The proceeding began with U.S. Magistrate Judge ...

The public-safety exception to Miranda rules has been generating lots of discussion in legal circles and beyond in recent days. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announced on Friday following the apprehension of Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that federal officials planned ...

Daniel B. Winslow, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, is awaiting an advisory opinion from the Federal Election Commission on how his campaign should handle donations from same-sex couples. The request, filed by lawyers in Washington, D.C., from the firm Arent ...

Federal officials sat down with reporters this morning to discuss logistics and protocols for the upcoming James “Whitey” Bulger trial that’s set to begin in June. Representatives from the Clerk’s Office, U.S. Marshal’s Office, U.S. Attorney’s Office and Federal Protection ...

The trial is still two months away, but the attacks between lawyers are well underway in the Whitey Bulger case. The latest shot comes from the prosecution, which seeks to take Bulger’s attorneys to task for asking a judge to ...

Governor’s Councilor Robert L. Jubinville says if any action is to occur in Michael J. McCarthy’s longshot bid for a Southern Berkshire District Court judgeship, it will have to be at the request of the Pittsfield lawyer, not the council. ...

The chief of the U.S. District Court has announced there likely will be no layoffs or involuntary furloughs for personnel in the Clerk’s Office, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court or the Probation Department as a result of a budgetary sequester. Chief ...

Michael J. McCarthy did not get the news he was looking for from Gov. Deval L. Patrick this week. In an April 2 letter to the Governor’s Council, Patrick wrote that he would not pursue additional efforts to nominate McCarthy ...